Description
Deliciously cooked asparagus in the Instant Pot, seasoned perfectly for a healthy side dish.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 lb. trimmed asparagus (see notes)
- 1 cup water
- salt and fresh-ground pepper to taste
Instructions
- Trim the woody ends of asparagus. (To see where to trim, hold one piece in two hands and bend until it breaks. Trim off about that much from each piece.)
- Then cut each trimmed piece of asparagus in half.
- Put trivet in the Instant Pot and add one cup of water.
- Lay asparagus pieces on top of the trivet.
- Lock the lid, make sure the pressure valve is closed, and set Instant Pot to MANUAL, HIGH PRESSURE, ZERO MINUTES.
- When the Instant Pot reaches pressure, let it manual release for 5 minutes, then release any remaining pressure.
- If you don’t like any crispness in your asparagus, you can let it natural release the whole time. For asparagus that is quite crisp, you can natural release it sooner than 5 minutes.
- Remove cooked asparagus from the Instant Pot and season to taste with salt and fresh-ground black pepper.
- Serve Instant Pot asparagus hot, with one of the 10 ideas to add flavor (in the notes below) if desired.
Notes
- Refer to the notes for additional flavoring ideas for the asparagus.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Category: Side Dish
- Method: Pressure Cooking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cup
- Calories: 40
- Sugar: 1g
- Sodium: 5mg
- Fat: 0g
- Saturated Fat: 0g
- Unsaturated Fat: 0g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 8g
- Fiber: 3g
- Protein: 4g
- Cholesterol: 0mg